page_title: List of German Americans
section_title: Baseball
hierarchical_section_title: List of German Americans / Sports / Baseball
caption_attribution_description: Baseball player Bill Dahlen of Brooklyn (NL) in 1910. Cropped version of original image.
context_page_description: German Americans are citizens of the United States of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered the United States since that point. Immigration continued in substantial numbers during the 19th century; the largest number of arrivals moved 1840–1900, when Germans formed the largest group of immigrants coming to the U.S., outnumbering the Irish and English. Some arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start afresh in the New World. California and Pennsylvania have the largest populations of German origin, with more than six million German Americans residing in the two states alone. More than 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry; it is often mixed with other Northern European ethnicities. This list also includes people of German Jewish descent.
context_section_description: Chris von der Ahe – best known as the owner of the St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association, now known as the St. Louis Cardinals
  Trevor Bauer – professional baseball pitcher in MLB
  Chris Beck – pitcher for the Chicago White Sox
  Heinz Becker – MLB first baseman who played for the Chicago Cubs (1943, 1945–46) and Cleveland Indians (1946–47)
  Zinn Beck – MLB third baseman, shortstop and first baseman who went on to become a minor league manager and baseball scout
  Heinie Beckendorf – former MLB catcher
  Joe Benz – former pitcher for the Chicago White Sox; threw a no-hitter
  Lou Bierbauer – former second baseman in MLB during the late 1880s and 1890s; credited with giving the Pittsburgh Pirates their name
  Mike Blowers – former MLB third baseman and first baseman; current Seattle Mariners radio commentator
  Brennan Boesch – professional baseball outfielder in MLB
  Ted Breitenstein – former MLB pitcher and part of the "Pretzel Battery" with Heinie Peitz
  Clay Buchholz – MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
  Taylor Buchholz – MLB pitcher
  Mark Buehrle – MLB pitcher
  Fritz Buelow – former MLB
  Jay Buhner – former MLB player
  Madison Bumgarner – MLB pitcher for the San Francisco Giants
  Roger Clemens – former MLB pitcher
  Bill Dahlen – former MLB shortstop
  Babe Danzig – first baseman in Major League Baseball
  Ross Detwiler – MLB pitcher
  Mel Deutsch – former MLB pitcher
  Bill Dietrich – MLB pitcher
  Derek Dietrich – MLB 2nd baseman
  Barney Dreyfuss – baseball executive
  Ryne Duren – former relief pitcher in MLB
  Justin Duchscherer – MLB pitcher
  David Eckstein – MLB player and 2006 World Series MVP
  Mose Eggert – second baseman in Major League Baseball
  Hack Eibel – utility player in Major League Baseball
  Jim Eisenreich – former MLB outfielder
  Kid Elberfeld – "The Tabasco Kid", former shortstop in MLB
  Jacoby Ellsbury – professional baseball center fielder
  Joe Engel – former left-handed pitcher and scout in MLB who spent nearly his entire career with the Washington Senators
  Henry Fabian – 60 years in professional baseball as player, manager, owner, innovator and groundskeeper
  Oscar Emil "Happy" Felsch – center fielder for the Chicago White Sox, best known for his involvement in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal
  David Freese – professional baseball player, 2011 NL Championship Series MVP Award and the 2011 World Series MVP Award winner
  Frank Frisch – former MLB player and manager
  Bruce Froemming – Major League Baseball Special Assistant to the Vice President on Umpiring, after having served as an umpire in Major League Baseball
  Gene Garber – former MLB player
  Ron Gardenhire – former New York Mets player and current Minnesota Twins manager
  Lou Gehrig – MLB player
  Charlie Gehringer – MLB second baseman who played nineteen seasons (1924–1942) for the Detroit Tigers
  Charlie "Pretzels" Getzien – former MLB pitcher
  Troy Glaus – former MLB third baseman
  Paul Goldschmidt – MLB first baseman
  Zack Greinke – MLB pitcher
  Charlie Grimm – former MLB player
  Justin Grimm – MLB relief pitcher
  Heinie Groh – third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants
  Travis Hafner – Cleveland Indians designated hitter
  Noodles Hahn – former pitcher in MLB
  Ian Happ – second baseman for the Chicago Cubs
  Roy Hartzell – MLB player 1906–1916
  Arnold Hauser – former shortstop in MLB
  Harry Heilmann – Hall of Fame MLB player and World War I Veteran
  Fred Heimach – former MLB pitcher and part of the "Murderers' Row" Yankee teams
  Tommy Henrich – nicknamed "The Clutch" and "Old Reliable", was a professional baseball player
  Tom Herr – former second baseman in MLB
  August Herrmann – executive in Major League Baseball
  Orel Hershiser – former MLB pitcher
  Buck Herzog – infielder and manager in MLB
  Whitey Herzog – MLB outfielder, scout, coach, manager, general manager and farm system director
  Shea Hillenbrand – baseball player
  Dick Hoblitzel – MLB first baseman
  Billy Hoeft – former pitcher in MLB
  Barbara Hoffman – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
  Glenn Hubbard – former Atlanta Braves and Oaklands Athletics player and current Braves' coach
  Carl Hubbell – Hall of Fame scr
caption: Bill Dahlen
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